polymeris · HackerTrans

  Location: Berlin, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Clojure, Go, Java, Python, PostgresQL and other RDBMS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
  Résumé/CV: Most recently Senior Staff Engineer at CircleCI, previously Amazon, reach out for complete CV
  Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/cpolymeris/
  Email: c (at) polymeris (dot) dev

Don't contact me for cryptocurrency or adtech jobs, please.

polymeris

5년 전discuss

I agree in principle, but also find myself often doing my best thinking when making coffee or just "idly" staring out of a window, and would find it annoying to be interrupted just because I'm not at my desk. Luckily I work from home.

polymeris

6년 전discuss

True. And much of the work at ETH is conducted by foreigners, but the marketing association is still there.

polymeris

6년 전discuss

It's only partially patriotism. More importantly, I suspect, just a brand that sells well, no matter what you are selling. That said, EPFL/ETH and CERN have done some important things in computer science.

polymeris

6년 전discuss

That's the thing, JWT is not an authentication protocol, that's just one (the most frequent) use-case of "transfering claims". The footguns, e.g. the choice of encrypted or not, or symmetric or asymmetric crypto, are a result of the flexbility required to cover the other use-cases. Maybe what's needed is a subset of JWT that's just for AuthN.

polymeris

6년 전discuss

On the topic of Git Flow and simpler & faster alternatives, last month I published a short blog post about my experience learning those alternatives exist at CircleCI[1].

The most important learning for me was that things like Git Flow aren't free: they slow you down and make developers feel more detached and less responsible for the code that's running in prod.

[1] https://circleci.com/blog/you-are-what-you-git-how-your-vcs-...

polymeris

6년 전discuss

Chile is even worse, at least in terms of clock time, since, like Argentina, we are on UTC-3 most of the year, when geographically we should be on -5.

polymeris

6년 전discuss

Since it took me a while to find the original article: https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2016/03/18/articulo/145830979...

polymeris

6년 전discuss

I only evaluated hasura, haven't used it in production. What made me decide against it (it wasn't an easy decision, hasura does look cool) was the caching and scaling stories. The caching semantics for GraphQL are in general less mature than e.g. REST, but if hasura at least supported queries over GET it would help, by allowing CDNs to cache those requests. On the topic of scaling I was concerned that making a single postgres instance the bottleneck for the whole app does seem a bit of an expensive way to scale. But of course this all depends on the access patterns and the economics of the particular project.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

> Each hash is supposed to be unique and you cannot rewrite history with the exact same SHA-1.

I thought SHA-1 wasn't considered secure?

polymeris

7년 전discuss

Similar for Angel, which probably includes Ángel. I would consider them the same name. Even with the shared meaning, the pronunciation is different enough.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

I think creating libs is one reason, Iirc was not supported by shadow.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

Strange. I had to unpack at Schiphol two weeks ago. And go through the scanner even though I wasn't headed to the US. All in all, one of the worst airport security experiences in Europe. In Lisbon I didn't have to unpack.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

What are the charger requirements? Mine doesn't charge with the 60W provided by my monitor.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

I don't have an opinion on the benefits of schools and degrees, since I don't have one, but I am sure you could have gone work for FAANG after 4 years of autodidact learning and work experience, as well.

polymeris

7년 전discuss

I am more curious how they managed to output a 1000 kHz tone through those speakers.

polymeris

9년 전discuss

I get clojure.spec is primary a way to define a schema and validate against it, and that you can use it for automatic test generation, too. But I feel I fail to grok the whole extent of the possibilities it offers. Does it address any of the other things YZF mentions? Specially, the "prevent excessive mocking" part?

polymeris

9년 전discuss

Huh, TIL. As a non-native English speaker, I have always pronounced "route" as "raowt", probably influenced by the pronunciation of "router".

Btw, why is it "pronUnciation", but "pronOUced". English is hard.

polymeris

9년 전discuss

Heh, for me ctrl-w means "extend selection to enclosing expression", which leads to the same issue in browsers.

polymeris

9년 전discuss

> it's impossible to go back.

I too, am learning JS in 2017, and I can't wait to go back (to cljs). Or away, to anything else. I had done some basic stuff before, but for the last days I have been writing some code for a larger SPA.

Just as an example, today I needed to do the simple task of iterating over a dictionary. I expected it to go roughly like this:

    dictionary.forEach(this.someMethod);

Instead, this is apparently what passes for sane in JS world, in 2017:

    for (var key in dictionary) {
        if (dictionary.hasOwnProperty(key) {
            this.someMethod(key, dictionary[key]);
        }
    }

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